Quotes by Fire Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours. Virginia Woolf heroictragedyfire [The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days. Voltairine de Cleyre shadow-of-deathignorancefire And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead. Vladimir Nabokov firedoorscharacter I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad. W. C. Fields marriagefirefunny To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze. Virginia Woolf firehearthands I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. W. E. B. Du Bois blackracefire Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were. W. Edwards Deming firefunway To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires. W. E. B. Du Bois firemindplay The climate is changing. This year we have come to understand this when we faced events that resulted in fires. Vladimir Putin climatefireyears For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge. W. Edwards Deming zerofireknowledge It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all. Voltaire lightfirebook Every year without knowing it I have passed the day W. S. Merwin selffiredeath Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire. W. H. Auden cancerfiremen Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire. W. H. Auden squaresfirerunning Composing mortals with immortal fire. W. H. Auden composingimmortalfire A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out. Wallis Simpson marriageemotionalfire Commitment is the match that lights the fire. Wally Amos lightfirecommitment The fire burns as the novel taught it how. Wallace Stevens taughtnovelfire That tuft of jungle feathers, Wallace Stevens eyefireanimal I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again. Walt Whitman flamesfirethinking«180181182183184185186187188189190»
